Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Oscar winner and novelist, died

Oscar, the Booker Prize winner novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer
Jhabvala, author of “Heat and Dust” and many other books set in India,
died on 03 April 2013.Jhabvala also worked on several movie adaptations
with filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, winning two Academy
Awards for her screenplays for 1985 movie “A Room With a View” and
“Howards End” in 1992.Jhabvala was born in Germany but emigrated with
her family to Britain during the Nazi regime. She later married an
Indian architect and moved to India, where she began to write about her
life there.Jhabvala collaborated with Merchant and Ivory on more than 20
movies including “The Remains of the Day” and “Mr. And Mrs. Bridge.”